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CHARLES FISHER -AND GEORGE FISHER, OF TECUMSEH, MICHIGAN. Letters PatentNo. 67,969, dateol lztgust 20, 186i.

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TO ALL WHOMI T MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that 'we, CHARLES FISHER and GEORGE FISHER, of Tecumseh, inthe county of Lenan'ee, and State of Michigan, havcinvented a new andimproved Apparatus for Soldering Troughs; and we do hereby declare thatthei'ollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming partofthisspecification.

The nature of our invention consists in constructing an apparatus insuch a manner that in manufacturing tin, zinc, or sheet-metal troughs orgutters, they may be held firmly in their place while the differentsections are being soldered together. It more particularly consists inproviding a trough, and also providing any suitable or convenient numberof levers, upon which are pivoted clasps provided with flanges or lips,which fit over the edge of the trough or gutter and hold it in afirmposition while it is soldered.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our invention, wewill proceed to describe its construction and operation. 7 I I Figure 1is aside elevation of our improved apparatus for soldering troughs orgutters.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the same.

Figure 3 is a transverse verticalsectional elevation from the line a;in.

Figure 4 is a detailed-view of the clasp. 7

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of thofigures.

A represents a wooden box or trough, composed of three pieces, e, and c,of suitable dimensions. In

i the side piece a, near the top, and upon the inside, is a groove, a,for the purpose of holding one edge or side of the sections of thegutter-when it is designed to be soldered. Upon the outside of the sidepiece d are levers, 0 0 o, pivoted by bolts at z z 2'. At a proper pointupon these levers o 0 o are pivoted, at w'w w, claspsD DD,

which extend upward over the top of-the box, so as to engage the gutterand holdjt in position while being soldered. The ends of these saidclasps are provided with a'lip or flange, b, also pintles y, fig. 4',which fit down by thefsidc of' the edge of the gutter to prevent itfrombinding while being soldered. F F F are ratchet-bars, secured to theoutside of the side piece d, in which the pivoted levers 0 0 0 engage,for the purpose of holding dowmthe gutter and kcepingit in positionwhile being soldered. At the pivot or hearing i'of the levers o arecum-Washers 11,, through which the pivot-bolts pass to keep them inplace. These cam-washers arcfor the purpose of throwing the clasps Dfrom over the edge of the trough and gutter, when the-lever o israisedso it can be removed from the apparatus and more sections placedthereinto'be soldered.

This apparatus is simple and cheap in its construction, and veryconvenient and useful for the work designed. ,The old method of holdinggutters to be soldered is a slo\r, laborious, and imperfect process, itconsisting in placing the gutters in a trough orbox and bringing thesections as near their positions as possible, and nailing the edges tothe side of the trough or box until soldered, by which means a largeamount of-solder is wasted in filling up the impcrfections of the jointsof the sections, they cannot bc'brought to a pcrfect'bearing by the oldmethod. v t

By our invcntion'all this diliiculty isohviated, as we are able, hymeans of thc levcrs, to bring the joints of the dilfercnt sections to aperfect bearing by which a larger amount of solder is saved, and muchn-eater work is made in much less time. I Having thus described ourinvention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. Theconstruction and arrangement of the. right-angular clasps D,provided upon the inner end with a flange, 6, and pintle pivoted to thelcver 0, andadjusted by means of the ratchet-bars F, substantially asdescribed for thepurpose specified.

2. We claim the cam-washers 7t n n, so as to throw or carry the levers oo o and 'clasps D D D out from over the edge of the trough or boxA,-whcn the said lovers are raised up, so that the-gutter can beremoved, substantially-as shown and described and for thepurposcs setforth.

CHAS. FISHER, GEORGE FISHER.

witnesses:

A.'B. VAN Du MARK, Y J. Ml BLANOHARD.

